We were lucky to get on one of the two buses sponsored by Torontoist, on a road trip down to Washington, D.C. for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity (and/or Fear) back in October 2010. Here’s a short video of our time at the rally (runs just over 4 minutes long).

Nic will probably be one of the first to tell you that I often complain about how little seems to happen in Canada’s history – making for some very boring study material.
But that’s not a very fair criticism, after all we’re neighbours to the Americans, and those guys can’t seem to go five years without getting into it with someone.
In fact, if you were to go back 197 years today on August 24, 1814, Washington D.C. was set ablaze by British troops in retaliation for the burning and looting …

We arrived in Washington early Saturday morning to discover that enterprising Americans were already hard at work hawking everything from t-shirts to bumper stickers with Rally graphics plastered on them. However they were also really helpful in guiding the way, and minutes later were on the subway.

While not everyone on the train was going to the Rally, it was clear the majority were. But even this didn’t prepare us for the sheer number of people who had made the trek down to Washington DC (try and spot the people in …

When Nic and I first heard that the Daily Show was going to stage it’s own rally in response to the one thrown earlier in August by Glen Beck, we weren’t sure we’d be able to do it – despite both really wanting to. Thankfully Torontoist, a very good source for all things Toronto, came to the rescue after securing some sponsorship.
Gathering in the growing gloom of that cold Friday evening, we waited outside the Royal Ontario Museum, and looked ever hopefully for our expected buses. After checking in with …

While we still have to make a post about our trip down with the Toronto delegation to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, I wanted to talk about an unexpected discovery we made while wandering around Washington DC after the rally searching for food and sightseeing before getting back on the bus for the long ride home.
Working our way over to the White House, we rounded a corner and discovered a rather large dragon pulled up against the curb as a swarm of people circled …